Where Is My Queen? – queens, wax and the beekeeper's craft

Harvest your beehives as always. Now and then a young queen bee crawls out of the comb and drops with the honey, so a busy apiary slowly raises its own queens. Every harvest also gives beeswax. Wax, honey and spare queens become an early-game beekeeper set, a swarm pot to throw, honey arrows, a long-burning beeswax torch and six honey dishes from the Black Forest to the Mistlands.

Finding a queen

1. Let a beehive fill up as usual. It makes one honey every 20 minutes in the Meadows, Black Forest and Plains, up to 4.
2. Take the honey with E (use). The hive rolls once for a queen.
3. If she is there, she lies on top of the honey, and you read:

A young queen crawls from the comb Enough for a new hive

• A full hive is best. The chance follows the honey you take: 4 honey has the full 1 in 30, 2 honey half of it, 1 honey a quarter. Emptying a hive every time it has one honey gives no more queens than waiting until it is full.
• She is a real queen bee. She stacks with queens from wild hives and builds a beehive at the workbench like any other.
• Only beehives. The bird nest works like a hive inside the game but gives feathers, so it never has a queen or wax.

Beeswax

Every harvest gives wax with the honey: 2 for a full hive, its share for less (one honey: a 50 % chance of one wax). A wild hive that you knock down drops 1–2 wax with its honey and queen. Wax goes into the beekeeper set and the beeswax torch.

The beekeeper set

Made at the workbench level 2, like the leather and troll leather sets. Each piece needs one queen bee: a spare queen's scent in the cloth is what keeps her bees calm.

Upgrades to level 4 cost more hide, scraps and wax (no further queens). Like vanilla armour of this tier, the refinement forge takes it further.

Set bonus "Beekeeper" (all three pieces):

• Poison resistance (−50 % poison damage).
• Bees do not sting you, neither at wild hives nor in a swarm pot's swarm.
• Twice the chance of a queen when you harvest in the set (1 in 15 instead of 1 in 30).

The armour sits between leather (2) and troll leather (6). The set is about bees and poison, not about armour.

Weapons and tools

• Swarm pot (workbench, 1 queen bee + 3 honey + 3 resin = 5 pots). Thrown like the ooze bomb. Where it breaks, the angry swarm stings everything within 3.5 m for 8 seconds: a little pierce damage every second and venom. Measured: about 90 damage to a troll that stands in it. A player in the whole beekeeper set is not stung.
• Honey arrows (workbench level 2, 8 wood + 2 flint + 2 feathers + 2 honey = 20). Pierce 24, slightly less than flint arrows (27). What they hit is sticky with honey: 30 % slower for 6 seconds.
• Beeswax torch (by hand, 1 wood + 1 beeswax). Burns 30 minutes instead of 10 and lights 15 m instead of 10, brighter and warmer. Otherwise a torch like any other.

Honey dishes

Each dish sits next to the vanilla dish of its cauldron level and costs some honey.

The real thing

Queens. A strong bee colony raises new queens when its hive gets crowded. Workers build a few queen cells on the comb, and the old queen leaves with half the bees as a swarm. A beekeeper who finds such a cell takes it, with a frame of bees, to start a new colony. That is why the chance in this mod grows with how full the hive is, and why a beekeeper who works the comb calmly in veil and smock finds more of them.

Wax. To get at the honey, the beekeeper cuts off the wax cappings that seal each cell. Those cappings are the purest wax of the hive, and they come with every harvest. Beeswax burns brighter and longer than resin or tallow, which is why church candles were made of it. Waxed linen sheds rain and stings.

Veil and smock. Beekeepers have worn hats with a dark net veil for centuries: dark net is easier to see through than light, and bees go for dark, furry things, so the rest of the suit is pale and smooth. Sleeves are closed at the wrists and trousers tucked into boots so no bee crawls in.

Swarm pots. Beehives and wasp nests were thrown at enemies from antiquity on: over town walls, into siege tunnels and onto ships.

Vanilla beehive (Beehive, measured in game): one honey every 1200 s, at most 4. One game day is 1800 s, so a hive is full after about 80 minutes, or 2.7 days. It only works in the Meadows, Black Forest and Plains, and only with enough open space around it.

How long until a queen at 1 in 30 (full hives, harvested when full):

Configuration

BepInEx/config/zap.whereismyqueen.cfg

Queens (server-synced, admin only):

• ChanceOneIn (30): a full hive gives a queen with a chance of 1 in this number. 1 gives a queen with every full hive, 0 turns queens off.
• ScaleWithHoney (on): a hive that is only partly full has a smaller chance in proportion to its honey. Off: every harvest has the full chance, however little honey it gives.
• BeekeeperSetBonus (2): in the whole set the chance is this many times higher.

Beeswax (admin): WaxPerFullHive (2), WildHiveWaxMin (1), WildHiveWaxMax (2).

Beekeeper (admin): CalmBees (on): bees do not sting a player in the whole set.

Recipes (admin): one entry per item, as Item:amount, comma separated. For armour Item:amount+perLevel adds that much per upgrade, e.g. DeerHide:5+3,WIMQ_Beeswax:6+3,QueenBee:1.

Client: ShowMessage (on): the message in the middle of the screen when you find a queen.

Multiplayer and compatibility

• The player whose game runs the hive rolls, once per harvest, just as that game drops the honey. Everyone sees the same queen and wax on the ground, and only the player who harvested gets the message, in their own language. The set bonus counts for the player who harvests, whoever owns the hive.
• The world setting for resources (more or fewer drops) scales the queen and the wax like the honey.
• Every player and the server need the mod. Requires Jötunn.
• The vanilla beehive, honey and queen are not changed. The new items are new prefabs (WIMQ_…): if you remove the mod, they disappear from inventories and chests.

Deutsch

Königinnen, Wachs und das Handwerk des Imkers. Du erntest deine Bienenstöcke wie immer. Ab und zu krabbelt eine junge Bienenkönigin aus der Wabe und fällt mit dem Honig heraus, und jede Ernte bringt Bienenwachs. Aus Wachs, Honig und übrigen Königinnen werden ein Imkerset für den Anfang, ein Schwarmtopf zum Werfen, Honigpfeile, eine lange brennende Bienenwachsfackel und sechs Honiggerichte vom Schwarzwald bis zu den Nebellanden.

Die Königin: 1 zu 30 für einen vollen Stock (4 Honig). Die Chance richtet sich nach dem Honig, den du nimmst: halb voll ist die halbe Chance. Wenn sie da ist, liegt sie oben auf dem Honig:

Eine junge Königin krabbelt aus der Wabe Genug für einen neuen Bienenstock

Es ist die Bienenkönigin aus dem Grundspiel. Das Vogelnest arbeitet im Spiel wie ein Bienenstock, gibt aber Federn und deshalb nie eine Königin oder Wachs.

Bienenwachs: 2 je vollem Stock, anteilig weniger; ein wilder Stock, den du herunterschlägst, gibt 1–2.

Das Imkerset (Werkbank Stufe 2, je Teil eine Königin): Imkerhut mit Netzschleier, Imkerkittel aus Leinen mit Ärmeln und Bündchen, Imkerhose in dunklen Stiefeln. Rüstung je 4 (+2 je Stufe), zwischen Leder und Trollleder. Setbonus „Imker“: Giftresistenz, Bienen stechen dich nicht, und du findest doppelt so oft eine Königin (1 zu 15).

Waffen: Der Schwarmtopf (1 Königin + 3 Honig + 3 Harz = 5 Töpfe) wird wie die Schleimbombe geworfen; 8 Sekunden lang sticht der Schwarm alles in 3,5 m (gemessen rund 90 Schaden an einem Troll), nur Imker im ganzen Set nicht. Honigpfeile (Stich 24) machen das Ziel 6 Sekunden lang 30 % langsamer. Die Bienenwachsfackel (1 Holz + 1 Wachs) brennt 30 statt 10 Minuten und leuchtet heller, 15 statt 10 m weit.

Honiggerichte (Kessel Stufe 1–5): Honigmöhren, Hirschbraten mit Honig, Rübenmus mit Honig, Honigglasierter Wolf, Honigkuchen und Königinnenhonig (mit Gelée royale, für Eitr). Jedes liegt neben dem Vanilla-Gericht seiner Kesselstufe, Werte in der Tabelle oben.

Wie im echten Bienenstock: Ein starkes Volk zieht neue Königinnen, wenn es eng wird, und schwärmt dann; der Imker nimmt eine Weiselzelle und gründet einen Ableger. Das Wachs sind die Zelldeckel, die er beim Entdeckeln abschneidet. Imker tragen seit Jahrhunderten Hut mit dunklem Schleier und helle, glatte Kleidung, Ärmel und Hosenbeine geschlossen. Bienenstöcke wurden schon in der Antike über Mauern und auf Schiffe geworfen.

Einstellungen (zap.whereismyqueen.cfg, vom Server-Admin): ChanceOneIn (30), ScaleWithHoney (an), BeekeeperSetBonus (2), WaxPerFullHive (2), WildHiveWaxMin/Max (1/2), CalmBees (an) und je Item ein Rezept. Für jeden selbst: ShowMessage.

Mehrspieler: Gewürfelt wird einmal pro Ernte bei dem Spieler, dessen Spiel den Stock führt. Alle sehen dieselbe Königin und dasselbe Wachs; die Nachricht bekommt nur, wer geerntet hat. Alle Spieler und der Server brauchen die Mod. Die neuen Items (WIMQ_…) verschwinden, wenn man die Mod entfernt.